Are you a supermarket snob?

Asda is my go to.
I will do small shops in tiny tesco's, morrisons to get by a day or two.

I will hit u an M and S if got a woman with me :D
 
Nutty667 said:
Probably I am.
I go to Sainsburies round here, mostly because its a nice bright airy store with wide aisles. The Morrisons here is just soo cramped. I can never find what I want in Aldi/Lidle.
I do often drive to the next town up the A3 to visit their Waitrose every soo often.
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That's a fair point with regards to it being nice and bright. Asda and Morrison's are gloomy.
 
I feel a bit dirty for saying it, but I just love Waitrose. They have a great range of more niche ingredients. When things are on offer they can be cheaper than Tesco. I get through a lot of frozen fruit and vegetables and because they tend to align pretty well with Tesco (unless I can be bothered to go to Iceland where it actually is cheaper), the price difference in shop vs most others is barely noticable.
 
Shash said:
I feel a bit dirty for saying it, but I just love Waitrose. They have a great range of more niche ingredients. When things are on offer they can be cheaper than Tesco. I get through a lot of frozen fruit and vegetables and because they tend to align pretty well with Tesco (unless I can be bothered to go to Iceland where it actually is cheaper), the price difference in shop vs most others is barely noticable.
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I guess in other words: yes.
 
Shash said:
I feel a bit dirty for saying it, but I just love Waitrose. They have a great range of more niche ingredients. When things are on offer they can be cheaper than Tesco. I get through a lot of frozen fruit and vegetables and because they tend to align pretty well with Tesco (unless I can be bothered to go to Iceland where it actually is cheaper), the price difference in shop vs most others is barely noticable.
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Agreed. It's the shop we have in our town. There is a small Tesco but not really a supermarket one it's too small to.be called that. It really is good.
 
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What is it with some retired people who have to go shopping on Saturday mornings? “Ooh it’s busy”. Durr! What do you expect when you decide to shop at the busiest time of the week?

I hated Saturday mornings when I worked at the supermarket. Towards the end of my service, got working aged customers shouting at the retired "I work 55 hours in the week. Surely you can find time shopping then", "Leave Saturday mornings for those who worked through the week"

BTW Both my parents have retired 13 years ago. They don't shop on Saturday mornings, my mum changed her shopping times since she retired.
 
cheesefest said:
"I work 55 hours in the week. Surely you can find time shopping then", "Leave Saturday mornings for those who worked through the week"
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That was probably me.

To be honest it properly ***** me off when we go shopping on Saturday morning and it's full of coffin dodgers jamming up the isles so they can have a social.

You got all week.........
 
I do wish Lidl will ban parents who use their car park to do the school run - school is opposite. The other week I completely forgotten that half term was earlier than rest of UK. One woman parked her car in a way so it was impossible to get past her to leave. The exit is only a car's width.
 
BUDFORCE said:
That was probably me.

To be honest it properly ***** me off when we go shopping on Saturday morning and it's full of coffin dodgers jamming up the isles so they can have a social.

You got all week.........
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Thank you for agreeing with me with the elderly. Another thing I didn't get at my store with elderly. They queued up at the kiosk to buy a newspaper, nothing else. Then did the rest of their shopping. What's that about? I even pointed out to these "can you see that lady with the blue coat? She is putting a newspaper in the trolley as she's purchasing that with her groceries". I knew she pays for her paper with shopping as scanned her shopping many times.

Why queue twice?

Another thing that I didn't understand. Where my previous work was located, there is a newsagents and at the bottom of the road, there is a petrol station with a shop (you had to cross over the road to get to it). People come in queuing up at kiosk for ages just to buy a lottery ticket and moaned about the queue and left. Yet the other two places you could go straight in and served immediately as people bought cigs and tobacco from us as they are £2 cheaper for cigs and £3 less for rolly baccy.
 
If it was local I would shop at Waitrose all the time but unfortunately I'm stuck between Lidl and a tiny Tesco so its Lidl 90% of the time.

I need to meal plan properly though and just do delivery as Lidl is terrible for its weirdly tempting items.
 
throwaway4372 said:
I hate Nectar/Clubcard two-tier pricing, so try to avoid Sainsburys/Tesco.
Mostly shop at Asda as it's local but I don't particularly like it.
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Think someone said earlier that the Clubcard / Nectar two tier pricing was only happening on the non-essential processed / unhealthy / multi-pack crap that you shouldn't be buying anyway.

Sainsburys the other day - £1.70 for a bag of rocket leaf salad, or £1 with Nectar :mad:

Not so bad online for delivery:

£1 with no Nectar card, 80p with. Though makes the £1.70 price in the town centre store look even more ridiculous.
 
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Terminal_Boy said:
Lidl for most shopping which is a pretty laid back experience until you get to the tills and have your purchases scanned at just below Mach 1.
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I hate that they also have no run off area at the end of the till so its grab and shove it in your bag lighting fast or either a log jam ensues and everyone looks at you because you're holding everyone up or it falls off the end. Actually I hate lidl in general
 
Ham trimmings is a thing that keeps me hunting.

Tesco's trimmings are slithers of cheap ham and you'd be lucky if they reach 1 cm wide, and it's crap anyway.

For the good stuff you have to get lucky at Aldi, or really slum it with inner-city Iceland: ham trimmings to die for 50% of the time. More like the local carvery's finest cuts.

Once you've tasted such trimmings, no more settling for what the major supermarkets will deliver to your door.
 
Pork and deliciousness and beef and who knows what. Some toasted to a nice texture, some the usual cooked meat style, all sold as ham.

Carvery style stuff as I say, that the major supermarkets are not providing.

If Waitrose is, I'll be converting to them, even if tomatoes and cucumbers and other crap are more expensive.
 
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